Events in Music
- Mar 7 Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto" premieres in Venice
Event of Interest
Ludwig van Beethoven
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 8 Per August Olander, composer
- Jan 13 Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer
- Jan 14 Vladimir Stasov, Russian art and music critic (d. 1906)
- Jan 22 Josef Leopold Zvonar, composer
- Jan 29 Karl von Perfall, composer
- Mar 2 Bedrich Friedrich Smetana, Bohemian composer (Bartered Bride, Moldau)
- Apr 21 Anselmo Clave, composer
- Apr 27 William Richard Bexfield, composer
- Jun 13 Julius Eichberg, composer
- Jun 22 Frederic Louis Ritter, composer
- Jun 23 Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer
- Jun 26 Moritz Furstenau, composer
- Jul 11 Adolphe-Abraham Samuel, composer
- Jul 30 Eugenio Terziani, composer
- Aug 1 Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, composer
- Aug 19 Georg Goltermann, composer
- Sep 4 Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (Te Deum, Wagner Symphony), Wagner disciple and "monumental bore", born in Ansfelden, Austria (d. 1896)
- Sep 8 Jaime Nunó, Spanish composer (Mexican national anthem), born in Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Catalonia (d. 1908)
- Sep 19 Carl Ignaz Franz Umlauf, composer
- Sep 30 Peter Milne, Scottish composer and violinist, born in Kincardine O'Neil (d. 1908)
- Oct 13 Henry Stephen Cutler, composer
- Oct 19 Frantisek Pivoda, composer
- Dec 24 Peter Cornelius, composer
Deaths in Music
- Feb 1 Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer, dies at 64
- Feb 22 John Davy, English composer, dies at 60
- Mar 3 Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violist/composer, dies at 70
- Mar 12 Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
- Mar 22 Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer, dies at 76
- Apr 18 Edward Jones, Welsh harpist and composer, dies at 72
- May 15 Alexander Campbell, composer, dies at 60
- Aug 21 Santiago Ferrer, composer, dies at 62
- Sep 17 Giacomo Tritto, Italian composer, dies at 91
- Nov 30 Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer, dies at 87